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Word: contented (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rare indeed that a movie can move in on the American frontier without million-dollar razzle-dazzle, chunks of pseudohistory, and an unctuous salute to those who secured our Way of Life. Rachel is content to examine a small domestic situation of no conceivable importance to citizenship classes, and to suggest the hard, lonesome beauty of the frontier and the way life was lived there. In other words, it is a better piece of history than most. There is pleasant work by Miss Young and Mr. Mitchum, and a skillful, comic, notably engaging performance by William Holden...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Sep. 27, 1948 | 9/27/1948 | See Source »

Over in the Annex Quadrangle, a small, throaty-voiced group of "Cliffe dwellers open the evening broadcasts of Radio Radcliffe at 7:29 1/2 Monday through Friday nights. RR depends mainly on platter shows for program content; swaps several broadcasts weekly with WHRV; works in two pocket-sized rooms in the 'Cliffe Rield House, and signs off nightly with "Pomp and Circumstances" at 10:501/2...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHRV and 'Cliffe Station Go Back On Air This Week | 9/27/1948 | See Source »

Over in the Annex Quadrangle, small, throaty-voiced group of Cliffedwellers open the evening broadcasts of Radio Radcliffe at 7:29 1/2 Monday through Friday nights. RR depends mainly on platter shown for program content; swaps several broadcasts weekly with WHRV; works in two pocket-sized rooms in the 'Cliffe Field House, and signs off nightly with "Pomp and Circumstances...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHRV and' Cliffe Station Go Back On Air This Week | 9/23/1948 | See Source »

...done for the trusts' sole benefit, and today the government is doing it for the benefit of the people. This year IAPI made $418 million [a total hard to accept in the light of lAPI's declining sales]. Before the trusts made it. They are not content, but the people should...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: To Benefit the People | 9/20/1948 | See Source »

Chariot is content to stay within the few blocks that hold the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, a Roman Catholic Church, and his white frame house on Boulder Crescent. Colorado has, of course, other attractions for Chariot. "Since I came to this outdoor-loving land," says he, "I am engaging in contemplating fishing. That is to say, I am contemplating...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Haymaker | 9/13/1948 | See Source »

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